| Michael is an assistant
research scientist at the Child and Adolescent Services
Research Center. Dr. Hurlburt is Principal Investigator
of the data collection component of a large, ongoing
randomized trial examining different approaches to
implementing a well-established parent training program
(The
Incredible Years) in multiple counties in California.
The study examines the effects on therapist fidelity,
and ultimately on parent and child outcomes, of enhancing
agency and therapist support during the process of
implementing the Incredible Years. The study has wide
potential implications for implementation of the Incredible
Years and other well-documented evidence-based interventions
that are increasingly viewed as important pieces of
overall systemic efforts to improve care for children
in public mental health service settings. This randomized
trial (Overall PI: Carolyn Webster-Stratton, University
of Washington) is supported by the National Institute
of Mental Health (R01 MH074497) and data collection
is ongoing. The first round of agencies and more than
70 families entered the study in Fresno, CA in April,
2006, with data collection and other project activities
scheduled to occur through 2010. Data collection in
the trial highlights CASRC’s specialization
in organizing and conducting sophisticated, multi-site,
longitudinal randomized trials.
Michael also has a 5-year career development award
(K01) from the National
Institute of Mental Health. The Child and Adolescent
Treatment Strategies (CATS) study follows from Michael's
interests in the techniques and strategies that providers
use when working with children and families in publicly
supported mental health care settings. The study is
designed to provide a more complete and representative
description of the psychotherapeutic care that children
and families receive in a defined geographic area.
It specifically focuses on care received by families
presenting for services at least in part due to concerns
about disruptive behavior problems in a young child
(ages 4-13). Goals of the study include understanding
the degree to which specific techniques and strategies
are employed by treatment providers, how treatment
techniques and strategies relate to elements of well-established
intervention models, how strategies and techniques
are modified to respond to the realities of concerns
that children and families bring to services in real-world
settings, and how outcomes over time relate to the
inclusion of different techniques and strategies in
therapeutic services. The distinctly services research
perspective in this study is giving rise to new avenues
for thinking about how to improve care through enhanced
training and supervision models that may begin to
incorporate different kinds of technological supports.
The design of the CATS study actively explores whether
it is possible to understand mediators and moderators
of treatment outcome in the context of a diverse array
of service settings. The study is also innovative
in its efforts to develop methods for learning how
aspects of services provided in real-world settings
can inform ongoing work to tailor interventions to
the needs of providers, children, and families.
In recently completed work, Michael played an active
role as an investigator on Caring
for Children in Child Welfare (CCCW), a study
of contextual factors related to utilization of mental
health services by children entering child welfare
settings. The CCCW links with a national cohort study
of children and families coming into contact with
child welfare/child protective service systems throughout
the United States, the National
Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW).
Michael also participated as an investigator in the
Caring
for California Initiative (CCI), a collaborative
group of researchers and California State Department
of Mental Health members interested in understanding
more about the details of care that children receive
in publicly supported mental health care settings
in California, with the goal of identifying promising
areas for targeted quality improvement efforts.
At Children’s Hospital, Michael has served
as chair of the IRB for 3 years and has contributed
substantially to the development of the Child and
Adolescent Services Research Center, acting as its
first chair of the Council of Investigators, and as
co-chair of the Methods and Statistics Core. Michael
has trained many of CASRC’s senior support staff
in statistical methodology and approaches to database
development and management. He has developed software
to support numerous CASRC projects, including computer-assisted
data collection software, observational coding systems
for therapy process coding and coding of behavioral
observations, and has overseen development of numerous
systems for supporting ongoing study management processes.
He actively consults with agencies in the community
to support a range of quality improvement efforts
and database development and management efforts.
Michael lives with his wife and two sons in San Diego
and particularly enjoys his role as a soccer coach
for young children.
View Michael
Hurlburt's Vita
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Leigh Quijada
Leigh Quijada received a B.S. in Psychology at the
University of California, San Diego and is currently
getting her M.S.W. at California State University,
Long Beach. She has worked as a research assistant
with the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
for over four years on a variety of different projects.
Child Therapy Process
Coding Team Members
Leigh Quijada
Stephanie Rebhan
Jill Sempel
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Principal Investigator: Michael S. Hurlburt, Ph.D.
Phone Number: (858) 966-7703 ext. 3606
mhurlburt@casrc.org
Research Assistant: Leigh Quijada
Phone Number: (858) 966-7703 ext. 6904
lquijada@casrc.org
Mailing Address:
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
3020 Children's Way MC 5033
San Diego, CA 92123
Physical Address:
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
3665 Kearny Villa Road, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92123
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